Corny Littmann

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Cornelius "Corny" Littmann (born November 21, 1952 in Münster ) is a German theater maker, actor , director and LGBT activist. He is the former club president of FC St. Pauli , lives in Hamburg and owns the Schmidt Theater and the Schmidts Tivoli .

Life

Littmann grew up as the son of the professor of finance Konrad Littmann in Münster and Berlin until the family followed a call from his father to Hamburg in 1970. After graduating from high school in Alstertal in Hamburg, Littmann studied psychology at the University of Hamburg and was a member of the SHB and the student council in the psychology department. As early as 1976 Corny Littmann, a homosexual himself , was on stage as a member of the Brühwarm theater group with topics from the contemporary gay movement. With changing colleagues he performed in numerous places in the Federal Republic of Germany until 1979. a. at the Homolulu event in July 1979 in Frankfurt am Main and the festival Umsonst und outside in August 1979 in Porta Westfalica .

In 1979 he joined the Green Alternative List (GAL). Littmann advocated that demands for social equality of homosexuals and for the reform of sexual criminal law were included in the first basic program of the Greens, which was adopted at the 2nd Federal Party Congress from March 21 to 23, 1980 in Saarbrücken and remained valid until 1993. At the party congress, a group of delegates headed by Baldur Springmann threatened to resign from the party if already resolved demands for the abolition of abortion paragraph 218 StGB, for the abolition of discrimination against homosexuals and for the mitigation of the criminal law provisions on the sexual abuse of children in paragraphs 174 and 176 StGB were not withdrawn would. Thereupon Littmann, together with Otto Schily , Roland Vogt and other delegates , drafted a resolution supplementing the basic program, according to which the party in all its branches was called upon to an open discussion on a revision of paragraphs 174 and 176 StGB, a committee to support the discussion was formed, and that Topic should be discussed in detail at one of the following party congresses.

In the 1980 federal election , Littmann ran for the GAL as the top candidate for the Greens in Hamburg; however, his entry into the Bundestag failed because his party in Hamburg received only 2.5 percent of the first votes. In order to publicly denounce the persecution and discrimination of homosexuals in the Bundestag election campaign , he - supported by a group of Hamburg homosexuals - smashed mirrors in public toilets on the night of June 30th to July 1st, 1980 at Spielbudenplatz and on July 2nd, 1980 a. a. at Großneumarkt, Jungfernstieg and Rathausmarkt. Behind these one-way mirrors were cabins from which Hamburg police officers could check the flap . According to his own statements, he has been leaving his party membership with the Greens on hold since 1982 for reasons of time.

Together with cabaret artist Gunter Schmidt, who today runs the Hamburg stage “Polittbüro” (political cabaret) with his partner Lisa Politt , Corny Littmann founded the touring theater “Familie Schmidt” in 1982, which Ernie Reinhardt later joined. With a mixture of songs and scenes, they traveled through Germany until 1988 with six of their own pieces under the motto " German, upright, homosexual ". From 1982 to 1985 Littmann was the leader of the independent theater groups on the Kampnagel site. In 1990 he became a board member of the Kampnagel support association.

Since October 2006 he has with his longtime friend, a tenor in the choir of the Hamburg State Opera , partnered .

theatre

On August 8, 1988 at 8:00 am, Littmann opened the " Schmidt Theater " on St. Pauli as artistic director, together with three other partners . On September 1, 1991, the so-called “Great House” was opened just a few buildings further under the name Schmidts Tivoli .

In the years 1990-1993 Corny Littmann became known nationwide under the artist name "Herr Schmidt" after the Schmidt Midnight Show had been broadcast in the third television programs. Co- moderators were “Lilo Wanders” ( Ernie Reinhardt ) and “Marlene Jaschke” ( Jutta Wübbe ). "Mr. Schmidt" caused angry reactions several times - especially in Bavaria. For example, the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation faded out from a midnight show when Littmann held a Deutsche Aidshilfe poster in the camera showing two men having oral sex . The program was never broadcast on WDR . In 1995, together with Georgette Dee , four episodes of a new television show, the Neue Schmidtshow , were produced in Schmidt's Tivoli . In the summer of the same year, the operetta Im Weißen Rößl premiered.

After the end of the midnight show , Littmann directed a house production for the first time. It was the musical Cabaret . Just a year later, Littmann directed the 1950s revue Fifty-Fifty . This was the first collaboration with his longstanding musical director and resident composer Martin Lingnau .

Since 1998 Littmann has been producing his in-house productions time and again, or has also taken on small roles himself. For example, he was seen as "Gerda" in Pension Schmidt , a stage soap opera with a new monthly episode. In the same year he played alongside Henning Schlueter , Elisabeth Volkmann and Monty Arnold in the three-question mark episode 82 The Cards of Evil .

Productions
Sixty Sixty
The splendid Schmidt schlagerfest
Hot Corner - The St. Pauli Musical
Cavequeen - you collect. Me too!
Oh alpine glow! - Glamor, fun and singing
Karl Dall is “Der Grandpa”
Karamba!
The kings of the Kiez - bankruptcies, bad luck ... and papa.

Football official

On February 25, 2003, the general assembly of FC St. Pauli elected Littmann as president of the club. He had held this office since December 2002 as the successor of Reenald Koch .

On February 23, 2007, after disputes with the Supervisory Board, he announced that he would be stepping down on March 26, 2007. On March 13, 2007 he was recalled as president by the board of directors of FC St. Pauli, but was reinstated shortly afterwards with an injunction. After their confirmation by the Hamburg Regional Court , he revoked his resignation. At an extraordinary general meeting on March 25, 2007, Littmann was confirmed as president. At the regular general meeting of FC St. Pauli on November 18, 2007, Littmann was confirmed in office for a further four years. Littmann was supported in his work by Vice Presidents Stefan Orth, Marcus Schulz, Gernot Stenger and Bernd-Georg Spies.

After promotion to the Bundesliga , Littmann surprisingly resigned as president on May 19, 2010. But he wants to stay with the club "as managing director of FC St. Pauli Service GmbH, friend and fan".

Littmann is a member of the German Academy for Football Culture . As an ambassador, he supports the Respekt! No place for racism .

honors and awards

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Christoph Ruf: The undead from Millerntor. The suicide of FC St. Pauli and its lively fans , PapyRossa Verlag, Cologne 2004 ISBN 3894383100

Web links

Commons : Corny Littmann  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Time. No. 3 of January 16, 2010.
  2. ↑ Lilian Klotzsch, Richard Stöss: Die Grünen, in: Richard Stöss (Ed.): Party Handbook: The Parties of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945–1980, Volume 2, Westdeutscher Verlag 1984, pp. 1509–1598, here p. 1536
  3. ^ Franz Walter, Stephan Klecha : Distancing Tango in the Pädofrage, Faz , August 12, 2013, p. 7
  4. ↑ Ulrich Würdemann: The Hamburg 'Spiegel Affair' 1980 - police surveillance of flaps uncovered (act. 2) , December 22, 2012
  5. ↑ Affairs: Big Hammer . The mirror No. 29/1980. July 14, 1980. Retrieved June 4, 2014.
  6. ↑ Lazar Backovic, Martin Jäschke, Sara Maria Manzo: Schwulenparagraf 175: Contemporary witness Klaus Born had to go to prison . Spiegel Online . June 3, 2014. Retrieved June 3, 2014.
  7. ↑ The Dark Legacy of the Greens , Abendblatt.de, August 14, 2013
  8. ↑ queer.de: Corny Littmann under the hood , December 5, 2006
  9. ↑ Tagesspiegel: Littmann remains president , March 19, 2007
  10. ↑ https://www.tagesspiegel.de/2007-11-18-neuss-littmann-weiter-vier-jahre-praesident-bei-pauli/1100542.html
  11. ↑ "The captain leaves the bridge, but not the ship" ( Memento from May 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ https://www.fussball-kultur.org/adresse/address/corny-littmann
  13. ↑ Ambassador - Sport. Charitable respect! No space for Rassismus GmbH, archived from the original on February 13, 2015 ; accessed on February 13, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Littmann, Corny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Littmann, Cornelius (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater maker, actor, director and LGBT activist
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster